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mégapuce [2 records]

Record 1 1998-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
DEF

a chip that can store more than 1 million characters of information, i.e. four times the capacity of the largest chip now available.

CONT

... attention is focusing on the megabit RAM, the 1,000K chip. Industry experts describe its power as awesome. In a silicon wafer about 10 millimetres by 8 mm, the IBM megabit chip is capable of storing enough characters to fill about 100 pages of double-spaced typewritten text.

CONT

A typical personal computer can store 64,000 bytes of data in its main memory, equal to about 250 typewritten pages. A computer using one-million-bit memory chips could store 4,000 pages in the same amount of space.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)
DEF

Puce d'un mégabit.

CONT

Une unité centrale classique nécessite quelques 4000 chips (puces) alors qu'avec la technologie WSi il n'en faut plus que quarante. Compte tenu de la dissipation de ces "puces géantes", le refroidissement par eau est rendu nécessaire.

OBS

Il existe déjà des projets de production de puces d'une capacité de 4 mégabits et de 10 mégabits. Toutes ces puces s'appellent "mégapuces" dès que leur capacité de mémoire se mesure en mégabits.

Spanish

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Record 2 1989-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Puce capable d'enregistrer plus d'un million de caractères. c'est-à-dire d'une capacité variant entre un et dix mégabits. Construite pour mémoires de masse à haute densité.

Spanish

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